Still no word on Walgreens

I just got off the phone with Jackie Mallette, property manager with Reata Real Estate Services, who said there was no update on the Walgreens on East Houston Street.

She told me to call back in two weeks, which is the same thing she told me the last time.

If you haven’t walked past it lately, contractors C.W. Mitchell & Sons Inc. are honing in on completion of the Walgreens building and the smaller space next door. I took these pictures yesterday. Most of the sidewalk is completed in front.

The last time we spoke, Mallette told me the second floor of the new Walgreens building will be office space occupied by the Nix Hospital. As for the small building next door, there are rumors that Carmen’s de la Calle, the tapas restaurant on 720 E. Mistletoe Ave., is moving into that space.